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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be very little desire for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way, with the awful market conditions creating a bigger desire to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For the majority of the people subsisting on the meager local earnings, there are 2 established types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the concept that many do not buy a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the very rich of the society and travelers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally large tourist business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is basically not known.
